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Naturalizing the market on the road to revisionism: Bruce Caldwell's Hayek's challenge and the challenge of Hayek interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

PHILIP MIROWSKI
PHILIP MIROWSKI*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Policy Studies, University of Notre Dame
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*Correspondence to: Department of Economics and Policy Studies, University of Notre Dame. Email: mirowski.1@nd.edu
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Abstract:

Bruce Caldwell's Hayek's Challenge should be welcomed as the first serious book on one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. However, this review begins by pointing out a number of curious omissions and silences concerning Hayek's career in the book. We propose that the key to understanding the turns and reversals in his thought lay in his politics, and not as Caldwell has it, in some abstract philosophical doctrines. Central to that thesis is Hayek's fostering the development of Neoliberalism through such institutional structures as the Mont Pèlerin Society.

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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , December 2007 , pp. 351 - 372
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Copyright © The JOIE Foundation 2007

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